7th July 2019

A day of light northerly winds, occasional sunny intervals, but also prolonged periods of cloud and temperatures reaching 17 degrees C. Seawatching highlights included 122 Common Scoters south (32 north), single Red-throated Divers south and north, 372 Manx Shearwaters north, nine Whimbrel, nine Sandwich Terns, seven Arctic Terns, a Common Tern, three Bonxies and an Arctic Skua. An adult Yellow-legged Gull also loafed on rocks below Cattlemere, south of the Lighthouse. 

Puffin, Thornwick Bay, by Alan Walkington